A/N: I just wanted to apologize first because I said that this chapter would take less time and I would upload it faster than the second but this actually took much much longer.

I just had a massive writers block so I couldn't finish this chapter earlier and I'm not really sure I'm over it but I still felt like writing and think this is suitable for a third chapter.

I hope there are still people who want to continue reading and I wanna thank you

So have fun with Chapter 3 and if you'd like leave some comments :3

PS: Especially if there is anything to criticise because I'm still not too confident writing fanfiction in English.

Chapter 3

Marinette was standing outside.
She just put on her gloves and made sure Tikki was kept warm in the inside of her jacket.
"I'm alright, Marinette."
Her kwami smiled and hid in the jacket again.

Alya, Nino, Adrien and her wanted to meet up in the park at 3 p.m. and for once Marinette wasn't as late as always.

She still had a few minutes time to get to the park and it wasn't far away, it was more like just around her corner.

So she walked over to the park.
Alya, Adrien and Nino were already waiting for Marinette.

She saw them talking at a bench.

"Okay, this is gonna be great!" she whispered to herself as she walked to the others.

"Hello, guys."
Marinette waved and smiled.
I'm really glad that Alya and Nino are here, too.

The others greeted Marinette and Alya gave her a hug.
"Soo… " she started "Who's up for a snowball fight?"
Alya smiled expectant.

Marinette's eyes began to sparkle.
She loved snow and everything that had to do with it. So she was absolutely up for Alya's suggestion and smiled all sweet and excited.

Adrien threw a small glance at her and smiled.
This feels like my dream will become a reality. A snowball fight with Adrien!
She would have squealed but managed to control herself so she wouldn't have to be embarrassed later and just smiled greater.

"Yeah! Would be fun." Nino said cheerfully and patted Adrien lightly on the shoulder.

He just smiled and nodded approvingly.

"But" Alya took something out of her jacket "so that it is more of a surprise let's draw the teams by lot."
She grinned and held out four seemingly same sized tooth picks.

"Choose wisely!"

They looked at each other.

First Nino picked one.

And then Marinette.
They were different. Marinette's was broken and Nino's not.
This means… either Alya or Adrien is gonna be on a team with me.

At last Adrien took one of the two toothpicks left.
It was a broken one.

Just like Marinette's.

I sure am lucky.

She wanted to make a victory dance but managed to stay calm on the outside.

But on the inside Marinette threw a party and felt the butterflies in her stomach.

Alya smirked at her best friend who seemed zoned out.

"Well, then it's set. Let's start!"

She grabbed Nino by his hood and they started building a wall out of snow.

Adrien looked at Marinette.

"We should build one, too, huh?" he asked.
Marinette nodded nervously.

I'm in heaven!

Just like Alya and Nino they started shoving lots and lots of snow together to build up a wall to 'protect' them from the attacks of the others.
As they were building Marinette was totally focused.
She had looked forward to this for like forever and even if she would rather just look at Adrien happily putting more snow on their wall, she was also too happy herself playing in the snow with friends again to just look at Adrien, who she already was watching every other time.

"We're gonna crush them, right?"
Adrien suddenly turned his head towards Marinette and a little smirk appeared on his lips.

Marinette stared in amazement.

I didn't think he would ever have such a look on his face… It kinda reminds me of someone …

Just as she was thinking a snowball hit her right in her arm.
"Hey!" she yelled in surprise "Alya we haven't finished our-"
Another snowball now into her face.

"… wall." Marinette added angrily while smiling playfully.

She was ready for revenge.
Marinette grabbed some snow and threw a ball towards Alya who instantly got hit.

She laughed and turned towards Adrien.

He smiled.

"Let's crush them!"

Marinette agreed smiling back.

They both grabbed balls of snow and threw them at Alya and Nino while trying to finish their wall.

Once this started a real war-like situation broke out.

The two teams were attacking each other.

But every few minutes the attacks stopped and they talked to each other to discuss their tactics on how to win this.
And because they didn't make out what would make them a winner it was clear that one team just had to give up and that's what they wanted to achieve.

This caused Marinette and Adrien to sit together really close just like Alya and Nino did behind their wall.

First Marinette was nervous about being literally just one millimetre away from Adrien especially when it was her hand that was laying down directly next to his.
But she concentrated on what he said and his plan on how to make Nino and Alya give up.

"So did you get the plan?" he asked to make sure.

"Yes, totally." she answered.

But to be honest… I only got half of what he said… Damn me for getting distracted by how cute he looks with a red nose and his eyes sparkling like that.

Without really knowing what Adrien had planned she just stood up from her hiding place behind the wall and tried to throw snowballs at the other side which she better shouldn't have done.

Because as she was standing there Nino took the chance and threw a snowball right in her direction.

Marinette didn't see the attack coming and therefore wasn't trying to get down so it wouldn't hit her. But Adrien was.

He also stood up because he was confused why Marinette did, since he said they should wait for a few seconds before doing anything.

So before anything could happen he reacted instinctively as if she was about to be hit by a truck.

Without thinking he threw himself before her and shouted "Watch out!" as he was protecting her with his whole body.

Thanks to that he couldn't keep his balance and fell down.

While he was protecting Marinette.

The result was a blushing blue haired girl, who was totally surprised, lying underneath Adrien, who had placed his hands left and right next to her to hold himself up.
They both looked each other in the eyes and it felt like time had stopped.

Marinette's heart started beating faster.

Being this close to Adrien made her mind go blank.

It made her stop breathing.

And at the same time the happiest girl on earth.

But even though this moment felt like an eternity it didn't last long.

A grin appeared on Adrien's face.

And before he could give it a thought he had already said it.

"You're under Agreste!"

Marinette stared at him confused.

W-what did he say?!

Did her imagination run wild just now or did she actually hear what she thought she heard?

Adrien started blushing.

Not only his nose was red now.

He removed his hands from the ground and was now sitting in front of Marinette.

While one hand was busy hiding half of his face he held out the other to Marinette and asked "Do you need help getting up?" without looking at her.

She looked at him still confused but nodded and took his hand.
Their hands touched slowly as he took hers gently in his.

After he helped her getting up he still wouldn't look into her direction but the redness in his face seemed to fade away.

Was that for real just now? Marinette thought as she looked down at her hand which he was still holding pretty tight.

Adrien finally took his hand away from his face.

He couldn't even tell himself why he had said that.

For a second he looked to Marinette and as he saw how happily she looked at their hands he couldn't help but smile.

Another moment he wanted to last longer.

"Hey, guys!" someone shouted suddenly.

"What are you doing? Stop the flirting when you're supposed to fight us!"
Alya was smiling at them playfully from the other side of the park.

Adrien and Marinette had totally forgotten about their friends.

As they realized what this looked like they blushed again.

Marinette rapidly took her hand out of Adrien's who just grinned apologetically.

We didn't flirt!... right? I mean… I don't know… Would you consider that flirting?

But why would Adrien flirt with me?

Her mind was running wild and her face just got redder and redder.
Alya took the chance of distraction and threw a snowball at Adrien.

"Don't get to distracted you two lovebirds."
Marinette would normally want to stay there blushing and being embarrassed.

But Adrien, who was wiping the snow from his face, looked at her and said "We can't let them win like that, right?"

She laughed and her eyes turned more serious.

"You're right."

They formed snowballs, counted up to three and attacked Alya and Nino.

"I can't believe you actually thought you would have a single chance against us!"
Alya high-fived Nino as the four of them were about to leave the park.

Adrien and Marinette looked down and sighed.

"Oh, don't be so sad. Maybe next time."

Alya grinned and patted Marinette's shoulder.

"Yeah, next time we'll beat them, Marinette!" Adrien declared enthusiastically.

Later in the evening Marinette was sitting at the table with her parents and smiled stupidly into the distance.

Her parents looked at each other and smiled.

"Did you have fun today, honey?" her mother asked.

Marinette was startled and turned her head to the left where her mother was sitting.

"Huh?"
Sabine laughed.
"Uh… yeah, Mom." Marinette answered sheepishly and smiled.

After dinner Marinette said 'Good night' and went to her room.

Until late at night she gushed to Tikki about how wonderful the day was while getting all red in the face and smiling everytime she brought up Adrien's name.

Tikki listened carefully, even though she had been with them the whole day, and smiled at her dear friend.